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The Museum of African Diaspora features Negroes with Guns

The Museum of the African Diaspora is launching a new monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club, with a screening and discussion of Negroes with Gun on Sunday, June 14.  The film, which aired on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2005, was co-directed by DFP Professor Sandy […]


Lu Wins RiverRun PitchFest Competition

Congratulations to Yuqi Lu (MFA’20) for delivering the winning pitch in the RiverRun Pitch Fest competition!  Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, this year’s event was moved to an online format with each participant submitting recorded video pitches to the judges. Lu pitched her thesis film, […]


Cassidy Offers Master Classes

We are excited to offer 1st Year MA and MFA students the opportunity to work with Peabody Award Winning and Emmy Nominated Documentary Producer David Cassidy this week. Cassidy is offering multiple Master Classes in Producing as a Visiting Instructor this semester. […]


Robinson (MFA ’19) Joins USC as Sports Media Instructor

We are thrilled to share the news that Mandrallius Robinson (MFA ’19) is joining the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.  Robinson has been hired as the school’s first sports media instructor as it prepares to launch a new sports media […]


Five Minutes Screens at Cucalorus Connects

Professor of Practice and co-director of the animated narrative film Five Minutes, Peter Gilbert teamed up with Dr. Paul West for a Cucalorus Connect screening of the film and a conversation on its focus on regenerative medicine.  The film explores the hope of regenerative medicine […]


May Wins South Pitch!

Congratulations to Matt May (MFA ‘20) (pictured left)  for winning the New Orleans Film Festival’s South Pitch Competition! Matt pitched Out to Stay, a film co-directed with Victoria DeLeone (MFA ‘20), in the documentary division. The South Pitch competition features documentary and narrative student filmmakers […]


Fitzgerald and May Headed to SouthPitch

We are excited to announce that Bridget Fitzgerald (MFA ’20) and Matt May (MFA ’20) will represent the DFP at the New Orleans Film Society South Pitch competition later this month. Fitzgerald will pitch her thesis film, Alchemy. May will pitch, Out to Stay, a […]


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